The appointments follow a standout 2025 for the agency, which saw Fuller delivering major brand projects for organisations including the Adelaide Football Club, ElectraNet, Minda and Australian Wine – work that earned global recognition at the Transform Awards.

Fuller Managing Director Will Fuller said the appointments reflected the agency’s continued investment in delivering meaningful, high-impact brand outcomes.

“Our ambition is to build brands and campaigns that create change and inspire unity, through work that combines human led strategy and high craft creativity,” he said.

“We spend a lot of time immersing ourselves in our clients’ businesses to deliver world class work that meets the organisation’s ambitions. We pride ourselves on employing emotionally intelligent, talented people who embrace this approach.

“Amanda and Tom bring the balance of clear strategic thinking with the highest levels of execution and creativity. I’m excited to see what these two can do for our clients,” Will said.

Tom joins Fuller from Studio Landmark, where, as co-owner, he led strategy-driven branding, packaging, and signage projects across wine, education, hospitality, retail, and the arts, with his award-winning work recognised by AGDA, AADC, the Type Directors Club, and Pentawards.

Tom said joining Fuller was an invigorating new opportunity.

“I’m drawn to design that communicates with simplicity and intelligence. Fuller’s focus on strategy absolutely resonates with me – it enables the talented design team to craft work that’s not only beautiful, but meaningful. I’m excited to now be a part of that.”

Joining Fuller’s growing brand team, Amanda Eve brings a fresh, strategic perspective, combining curiosity with insight-led positioning that resonates with organisations and their audiences. With experience spanning graphic design, copywriting and brand strategy, she delivers a well-rounded, integrated approach to building brands.

Amanda said she was drawn to Fuller’s team culture and the deeply considered approach to business and brand communications.

“From my earliest conversations with Fuller, there was a natural and genuine alignment in beliefs and approach, grounded in emotional resonance, meaningful connections and positive impact. I’m so excited to be joining a team doing such thoughtful and impactful work with such incredible clients,” she said.

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Since first certifying in 2020, we’ve embedded B Corp values across our agency – from carbon neutral practices to better procurement, workplace wellbeing, and social impact.

Over the past three years, we’ve proudly developed our first Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan, deepened our support for First Nations partnerships, and continued our commitment to working with underserved populations with more than 30% of our clients coming from disability, aged care, environmental, indigenous and regional not-for-profit organisations.

We also achieved our lowest carbon footprint yet in 2023–24, verified through our ongoing Climate Active carbon neutral accreditation – which covers everything from our office footprint to staff commuting and working from home energy consumption.

We’re proud to have reached this milestone, but the work continues. B Corp or not, we will continue to strive to be a responsible business and a supporter of all cultures, lived experiences and perspectives – so that we can leave the world in a slightly better place for future generations.

You can find out more about what it means to be a B Corp in our article here.

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BrandMatters is a boutique, well established agency, celebrating its 20th year in 2023. Based in Sydney’s CBD, it specialises in qualitative and quantitative market research and brand strategy, including messaging, brand architecture and brand identity. 

The move comes on the back of a number of major client wins for us, including lead agency for the SA Tourism Commission resulting in the recently launched “Travel: Our Way” campaign; being appointed to develop the creative strategy for the SA Government’s “New State of Mind” campaign; and launching “Trade Up” a bold new campaign funded by the Construction Industry Training Board to encourage school leavers to take up a trade apprenticeship.

Most recently, we recently took home six awards at Adelaide Advertising and Design Club Awards, including the Golden Chair for its Kangaroo Island “Unfiltered” campaign.

“We opened an office in Sydney in 2021 and this new acquisition strengthens our national offering and client base,” Fuller Managing Director Will Fuller said. 

“As a second generation independent agency, we are very excited about expanding Fuller’s services on the east coast and adding high level research and brand strategy from such a well established and respected business to our portfolio.

“We are also looking forward to working with BrandMatters’ existing clients to build their businesses, and amplify their brands.”

BrandMatters works with a number of business to business clients from the finance, banking, IT and insurance sectors. It has also worked with FMCG companies, education and not for profit organisations.

BrandMatters’ Founder and Managing Director Paul Nelson said his agency had reached a stage where acquisition by a larger company was the best strategic option to provide an increased range of services to its many clients.

“We were attracted by Fuller’s integrated marketing offer, particularly its commitment to digital, web and content development,” Paul said. 

“Fuller is an aspirational, independent agency, with a strong ethical focus that aligns to our values and we look forward to becoming part of their team to build our client services in Sydney.”

All BrandMatters staff will continue in the new re-branded business, with Paul Nelson appointed Director of Consulting. Kylie McNamara continues as Director of Brand Strategy, Ryan Dunshea as Head of Client Services and Daniel Broadley as Head of Creative. Georgia Haenke has also joined the business from EMRS as Brand Insights Consultant.

Brand Communication Strategist Kate Fuller, who has been growing our offer in Sydney since 2021, has been appointed the company’s Agency Manager in Sydney. Kate worked in the US, UK and Adelaide before moving to Sydney.

“I’m excited about the opportunity to grow the client list that Paul has developed over 20 years and I’m looking forward to working with him in his new role of Director of Consulting,” Kate said.

“We have a senior team of highly experienced professionals, and we’re all looking forward to what we can create together in the future.  

“I’m also keen to leverage my background in science and not for profit brand communication to expand our spread of sectors.”

Fuller Brand Communication is based in George Street, Sydney.

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The Gold Chair, which recognises the advertising work judged best in show, was awarded for the Kangaroo Island. Unfiltered campaign created on behalf of the Kangaroo Island Tourism Alliance in 2022. 

Led by Senior Creative Josh Newnes, ‘Kangaroo Island. Unfiltered.’ was a showcase of the island. 

The campaign included a brand film and a series of experience films, highlighting the joys of unfiltered life, as well as six documentary pieces introducing unique locals and their unfiltered stories. 

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Developed for the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) SA, Trade Up challenges young people (16 to 22) to look beyond the hi vis to fast track their life goals and discover an exciting work path which is well paid, rewarding and offers endless opportunities.

According to projections from Australian Construction Industry Forum (ACIF) there are $67.5 billion worth of construction projects forecast for the next decade in South Australia.

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‘Travel. Our Way.’ poses both a challenge to tourists to reconsider their ‘usual holiday’ and take the trip down south where you will discover real, raw and rugged experiences you won’t forget.

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Such is the perverse self confidence of 30 somethings that, despite this bleak economic outlook, my wife and I decided to start a communications consultancy called Peter Fuller & Associates on July 1, 1993. The creative team we have today would have come up with something sexier as a brand, but at the time all I had to trade on was my name…and a white Falcon sedan with a car phone.

I remember standing in my corrugated iron shed-office in the middle of our Barossa vineyard on Day One wondering what next. I had secured a 12 month contract with my previous employer of around $60,000 a year. Then the phone rang and a former colleague offered me work that amounted to $30,000 a year. We had just grown the size of our new business by 50% in less than an hour.

And so we were away.

It’s an understatement to say that a lot has changed in 30 years. My first computer was an Apple LCII with 4 MB RAM and 40 MB of storage. It cost about $1,200. Today I have an iPhone 14 that has 6GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage…and it cost about $1200. And it takes photographs. ​Monitors my steps. ​And counts my many golf shots.

In 1993 there was no internet, and so no email, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram​ or TikTok. The invention of Google was still five years away and while we had brick-like Nokia’s, the game changing iPhone wouldn’t be released for another ten years.

Life, in hindsight, was remarkably peaceful.

As a fledgling PR man, my media releases were typed, printed and then patiently faxed to journalists. Photographs were shot on film and printed on glossy paper and sent to the media by post. News came from transistor radios and 24 inch TVs and people read newspapers over breakfast…at home, over their kitchen table, getting ink on their white Pelaco shirt cuffs. People drank Lipton tea or International Roast coffee. Trendsetters had Bodum plungers. Yes you could get an exotic cappuccino at Italian cafes if you were so inclined, but people didn’t queue like lemmings every morning for soy lattes or triple mochas or piccolos, as though their lives depended on a caffeine hit. In fact they were more inclined to have a Marlboro or Benson and Hedges to get their day off to a good start.

Water came out of a tap not a plastic bottle.

To do business we did lunch, lengthy affairs that sometimes didn’t finish until dark. But I maintain it built better personal relationships than any SMS or Tweet.

But some things never change.

After Paul Keating and the ALP won the “unwinnable federal election” in March 1993, he announced the appointment of a Republic Advisory Committee, chaired by Malcolm Turnbull. Thirty years later we have just crowned a new King of Australia.

In August HMAS Collins, the first Australian-built and designed Collins class submarine was launched. Today, while MPs drive to Parliament House in 2023 BMWs, our submariners still go to work at 500 metres below sea level in the 30 year old Collins class – the equivalent of a Holden Commodore – as we wait for an AUKUS built nuclear replacement. (Note: we no longer have Holden Commodores or a car industry!)

In November 1993 an 18-year-old Aboriginal dancer Daniel Alfred Yock died shortly after being arrested by Queensland Police Service officers in Brisbane. Around 470 more Aboriginal people have died in custody since the Royal Commission in 1991…more than 100 in 2021-22.

The Native Title Act was passed on December 21 after marathon debates and numerous amendments. The Federal Opposition Leader John Hewson declared that the legislation was “monstrous”, while Premiers Jeff Kennett (Victoria) and Richard Court (WA) stated that it would be unworkable. I hear echoes of this during the current Voice debate which makes me sad that people don’t study history. Over the last 30 years the Act has allowed Aboriginal people to claim back their original land following the Mabo ruling. There have been 213 peacefully negotiated determinations…and the sky hasn’t fallen in.

And on a lighter note, Shane Warne, bowled his first delivery of Ashes cricket, described as the “Ball of the Century”, to belligerent Englishman Mike Gatting to become an Australian legend. Today he is a second rate eponymous tele-movie star. On the opposite side of the sport ledger the Socceroos lost to Argentina 0–1 in Buenos Aires thereby failing to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup and breaking the hearts of a fledgling “football” following cohort in Australia.

Exciting and terrifying

Thirty years of business is simply one exciting and terrifying year, multiplied by 30.

The thing about being one of Australia’s 3 million SMEs (those with less than 200 staff) is that once committed, you have to hang in there for the scary ride. You sacrifice everything to keep the wheels turning, people employed and suppliers paid. You cannot step off.

I remember reading a framed quote on the wall of historic wine company Yalumba’s Boardroom soon after starting our little enterprise. The Managing Director Robert Hill Smith had just bought out dozens of family members, to own Yalumba with his brother Sam. He said he didn’t sleep for a year with those exorbitant interest rates threatening to bring him undone.

The quote from US President Calvin Coolidge said:

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On!’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”

Robert has proved this adage true time and time again as he celebrates 174 years of making wine at Yalumba this year.

Apart from this consistent drip feed of dogged determination, a business will only thrive on a diet of innovation. Without re-inventing and refreshing our offer we become stale and lifeless. Without the hybrid vigour of new staff we lose drive and joy and miss opportunities we never knew existed.

Our evolution from the brass-name-plate professional services style of Peter Fuller & Associates to our contemporary agency identity of Fuller Brand Communication, started in the early 2000s. I had never been completely satisfied with offering the single dimension service of public relations, relying as it did on the promiscuous goodwill of newspaper editors to publish stories about my clients. It was hard to measure and even harder to prove success.

But I liked what I saw overseas, where in the wake of the Mad Men era, advertising, design and PR agencies were gobbling up each other, to create full service firms. The idea of creating an integrated brand communication agency where we could customise a solution by combining a range of services that delivered measurable results for our clients, really appealed to me. It was also a new idea in Australia where advertising and PR were jealously guarded in traditionally lucrative but very conservative silos.

Through the early 2000s we started adding a range of new in-house services based on a solid core of well researched strategy. We added branding, design, events, digital marketing, website development, SEO and SME, advertising, video content and more recently motion graphics.

That evolution continues, especially in the digital space, and will go on changing. But I’m delighted that our core skill of storytelling – through long and short form copywriting, journalism and video – remains vitally important to our clients.

For Good

The most significant change in the last five years has been the commitment by our family to turn Fuller into a second generation business. Will, who joined the company full time in 2006 (a year after his wife Liv joined us in 2005) and our daughter Kate, who returned from overseas in 2014, have been charting a new and exciting course for Fuller Brand Communication. The energy and creativity they generate, with our talented staff, is rewarding and fulfilling for Kathryn and I.

An example of this new direction is our decision several years ago to formalise our long-standing commitment to working with not-for-profits and giving back to our community, an ethos that Kathryn started back in 1999. We launched a Fuller for Good strategy which resulted in Carbon Neutral and BCorp certification in 2021 – a first for an Australian marketing agency. This has resulted in all sorts of culturally uplifting staff initiatives from recycling and transitioning to electric cars to wellness programs and volunteering.

We have also completed our Reconciliation Action Plan which has been approved by Reconciliation Australia, and using this as our North Star we aim to make a real difference by mentoring and supporting young Aboriginal people.

Under Will’s bold leadership, we have now grown to become a serious creative player not just in SA but nationally. We sit on major government panels, we work with some of the state’s biggest corporates and not for profits and we develop campaigns that create real change for South Australia such as the New State of Mind immigration campaign, the Kangaroo Island “Unfiltered” campaign and the SATC Rise up for the River campaign.

All of these campaigns – and the thousands of other creative behaviour change projects we have enjoyed delivering for our much loved clients – have one identifiable signature.

They make you feel: joy, excitement, empathy, happiness, courage, pride, purpose.

So after 30 years of persistence and innovation and re-invention – and I have to say a hell of a lot of fun – from humble beginnings in a shed in the Barossa to a business of 32 wonderfully passionate people with a new office in Sydney and a client reach from coast to coast, we are now the Home to Brands with Feeling.

I read recently that “leadership is about strategically and intentionally disappointing people at a rate that they can sustain.” I’m sure there is some good thinking in this justification of taking the hard decisions, by Social Leadership Australia.

But I passionately disagree.

Leadership to me is the flip side: it is strategically and intentionally exciting people at a rate they can barely sustain.

That’s what we want to keep delivering to our clients.

And that feels good.

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The LIV Golf Tournament made its Australian debut at the Grange Golf Club and was held from Friday 21 April to Sunday 23 April. 

In the lead-up to the event, SATC approached Fuller to develop 3D artwork to be placed on a billboard in Bourke Street Mall Melbourne, designed to align Adelaide with the fun, fast LIV Golf brand: ‘LOUDER. BETTER. FASTER. SHORTER’. 

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The ‘Rise Up for our River’ campaign and River Revival Voucher program, launched this month, forms part of the State Government’s $4.6 million river tourism recovery plan.

With a close connection to South Australia’s regions, Fuller was pleased to be able to play our part.

“Our agency was born out of regional South Australia, so we know how natural disasters like the floods can really knock around small country communities,” Will Fuller, Managing Director of Fuller Brand Communication said.

“We obviously jumped at the opportunity to play our small part in the recovery to help the Riverlanders get back on their feet.”

Having worked on #GoToTown and the Great State voucher scheme, Fuller developed the creative concept, ‘Rise Up for our River’, wrote the campaign script, set the campaign’s visual style, produced radio ads and filmed and edited a 30-second TVC which hit screens across South Australia and Victoria on Sunday, 12 March.

The TVC was filmed over several hot summer days and nights with 11 tourism operators in multiple locations across the Riverland and Murray River, Lakes and Coorong regions.

“It’s not every day that you get to work on such an important and impactful project where a region of locals are literally depending on you,” Michael Gagliardi, Creative Director at Fuller said.

“With this front of mind, the creative and production team at Fuller went over and above the call of duty to produce something that was heartfelt and empowering for all South Australians.”

The crew included Will Fuller, Managing Director; Michael Gagliardi, Creative Director; Jarrod Knoblauch, Director of Photography; Alejandro Aristizabal, Editor; Emily Dawe, Producer; Jake Viskic, First Camera Assistant; Daniel Ross, Gaffer; Travis Williamson, Sound Engineer; and Scott Illingworth, Music and Sound Design. Jamie Shawyer is SATC’s Account Director.

For more information about Rise up for our River and the River Revival Vouchers, visit the SATC website.

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AdMental is designed to do just that. The brainchild of the Mental Health Coalition of South Australia, Adelaide Advertising and Design Club and the Don Dunstan Foundation, the annual event taps into the power of marketing and advertising to increase awareness and understanding of mental health and wellbeing. 

The format is simple: two budding creatives get shortlisted and paired with a creative agency to bring their film scripts alive. The finished films are judged by a panel of judges at the event, Gruen-style. The stakes: the Geoff Robertson Memorial Trophy, a chance for the creatives to show off their chops to the advertising industry, a fully-paid Award School scholarship and most importantly, the opportunity to create a piece of communication that can prompt positive change.

This year’s AdMental brief focused on the mental health and wellbeing of first responders. How do we take care of those who take care of us? The AADC tapped Fuller Brand Communication to mentor Karen Michele, one of the two shortlisted creatives for this year’s edition of the event.

Karen’s film script titled, #SeeThem, highlighted the fact that first responders are real people who experience unimaginable trauma in their effort to protect and keep our community safe. First responders are called essential workers for a reason. We need them and it’s essential that they stay fit and well.

We worked with Karen to bring her vision to life—storyboarding scenes, brainstorming sound  design and lighting, sharpening bits of dialogue, and finally stitching the film together. Of course, we needed a few other vital hands on deck and so we reached out to some of Adelaide’s go-to film production folk—who all said yes to the cause at the drop of a hat. 

Special thanks to Richie Coburn, Riley Scott, Scott Illingworth, Jake Viskic, Austin Arruzzolo, Travis Williamson, Dan Ross and Slavi Gaitt for their amazing work, and to Picture Hire for the gear. Last but not least, a big thanks to Matt Hyde, Eddie Simms and Martha Lott, for their moving performances. 

Karen’s #SeeThem picked up the top gong at AdMental 2022. As a certified BCorp and an agency that strives to increase the amount of ‘For Good’ work we do each year, we couldn’t be more proud of the film Karen and our team have produced.

We hope the film moves viewers to rethink their perceptions of mental health and wellbeing, and especially see first responders for who they are — everyday people who could be battling serious work-related trauma. They’re not superheroes. It’s time we really see them.

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As one of the country’s largest suppliers of kitchen, bathroom and laundry ware, Seima has been a trusted industry supplier of quality bathroom products since brothers Jim and Michael Segredos launched the business in 2001.

However, the prominence of the Seima brand among consumers had always been of secondary importance — until now.

“In an ever-changing and competitive consumer-driven environment it became clear to Seima that they had to stay front-of-mind among consumers and industry influencers in order to continue to grow at the same rate,” Will Fuller, Fuller’s Managing Director said.

“In July last year, Seima approached Fuller to do something about this – challenging our team of strategists and creatives to raise awareness of the brand among its diverse consumer, influencer and industry audiences, and to streamline its product offering.”

The journey began with a comprehensive marketing strategy that paved the way for a new creative concept, video and photography style, and updated website to speak to Seima’s existing and new audiences.

“We started off by creating a brand story and statement – In flow with you – to capture Seima’s passion for quality, innovation and design,” Will said. 

“This became the blueprint for a revised classification of the brands’ products: the Seima Collections.”

The Seima Collections provided a cohesive way of showcasing Seima’s high-quality sinks, basins, baths, toilets, and accessories, and also hailed a new era of consumer-friendly sexiness, style and sophistication for the brand.

The five collections – Essential, Foundation, Elevate, Fusion and Evolve – feature new and existing products, including the ultra stylish and very “now” Aurora range of basins, which were released earlier this year.

“We’re excited to reveal our new collections to the world and enrich the selection process for all of our customers – merchants, builders, architects, designers and consumers alike,” Jim Segredos, Seima’s Managing Director said.

“We’ve worked with Fuller to specifically curate these collections to help our customers walk their clients through the world of Seima, by grouping similar products based on materials, aesthetics or practicality.”

The brand statement, In flow with you, also emerged as the core idea behind a new campaign for Seima, which launched in August 2022.

“Using In flow with you as our inspiration, we created a series of immersive brand and product films, reimagined custom still photography, and a series of written articles that centred around Seima’s obsession with materials and contemporary design,” Will Fuller said.

Fuller designed and built two new websites for Seima – one for industry professionals, and one for consumers – to tell their updated brand story, share their new collections, house their content and share it with the world, through a marketing campaign and ongoing digital strategy.

“The biggest hurdle from a digital perspective was producing a new website that appealed to two audiences who had no real common interests,” Matilda Toepfer, Fuller’s Head of Digital said. 

“Builders who are using the site to specify a sink, don’t have the same needs as a busy mum saving a Seima bath to her Pinterest board for an upcoming renovation. So we decided to build two.

“Two front ends, two different designs, two sets of copy and two sets of Google metadata – all connected to one database and one CMS to reduce administration time for the client.”

The launch of Seima’s collections, targeted websites, and new brand campaign has not only provided an engaging platform for Seima to connect with industry and consumers, it has introduced the Seima brand to the world – telling its story to a new generation of discerning consumers and industry professionals who will now think “Seima” when they think of sinks.

Planning a renovation? Get in touch with Seima. Planning a rebrand? Get in touch with us.

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